I’m Rod: An Incorrigible Optimist By Rod Campbell with Pete Lyons If you are on the outside looking in on...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
Porsche 917/10 Porsche’s partnership with Roger Penske Racing which would blossom in 1972 actually had it’s beginning the year before during the summer where Penske and his driver were competing at the 1971 LeMans Endurance race. Porsche had invited Penske for a meeting and over food and drinks they expressed...
Pete Lyons Fifty years ago, when people communicated on paper delivered by hand, her brother’s letters from far-off England would...
A.J. Foyt Mike Costin 1 A.J. Foyt drives a Coyote-Foyt to victory in the USAC Championship race at Pocono, Pennsylvania,...
The Royal Automobile Club has awarded the historic Segrave Trophy to John Surtees OBE. Speaking at the award ceremony, RAC chairman Tom Purves said: “John is one of the most accomplished and versatile sportsmen of all time, winning seven motorcycle World Championships and then victory in the 1964 Formula One...
Pete Lyons There is no great genius without a trace of madness,” declared the Roman philosopher Seneca, and can we...
This September the McLaren Group will observe the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding by Bruce McLaren, but the entire...
• Plans are proceeding for the re-paving and re-opening of the historic road course at Thompson International Speedway in Thompson, Connecticut. The venue, when used as a road course, will be primarily for club events with groups such as the SCCA, PCA and BMWCCA, as well as high-performance driving schools,...
Nino Farina Jim HallPhoto: Keith Booker 1 Sports car racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and...
Pete Lyons Stirling Moss deliberately steering his Lotus into rain puddles around the Nürburgring—reading about that may have been the...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The Mirage story is, in some ways, a rather complex one, in that the Mirage was a rare example of a well-known racing car that had not been developed consistently year...
Vincenzo Florio David DonohuePhoto: Chuck Andersen 1 F1 racer and six-time Le Mans winner Jackie Ickx born in Brussels, Belgium...
Sam Posey was presented with the Spirit of Competition award at a gala dinner at the Simeone Automotive Museum in...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and said: “George, we’ve had several speakers here; I’m surprised the term ‘anger management’ hasn’t been used yet!” Poor George Follmer could only join the laughter filling the Petersen Museum’s banquet...
Following the premiere of the one-off design study at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance earlier this summer, at an event...
Bicester is a small market town 12 miles north of Oxford. For centuries nothing much remarkable happened, then an estate of small factory units was built to encourage light industry. First March, then Reynard, turned the town into the world capital of customer racing cars. More than 3,000 single-seaters were...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup, co-sanctioned by the SCCA and the CASC, was essentially an “unlimited” series. Although there was...
The 18th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will honor racing driver Sam Posey as its special guest and celebrate the...
George Follmer Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Jacques Laffite Photo: Mike Jiggle 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital after crashing his Lotus during practice for the non-championship Mexican Grand Prix (1962). 2 Bobby Rahal drives a March 75B to victory in the Formula B race during the SCCA...
Bruce McLaren Scrapbook – A Pictorial Celebration of a Kiwi Legend By Jan McLaren and Richard Becht Bruce McLaren was...
Photo: RM Auctions During this year’s Classic Car Week in Monterey, 53 cars were sold at auction for prices above $1...
Now firmly re-established as one of the biggest and best historic racing festivals, the Silverstone Classic provided plenty of interest over the weekend of July 20-22. The event boasted a 1000-car entry list, made possible by using both sets of pits and paddocks on the full British Grand Prix circuit....
• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent...
Small independent shops are keystones of the automobile restoration industry, and among the more notable of these is Cavaglieri Restorations,...
François Cevert Eddie Rickenbacker 1 Helene Delange, who raced between the world wars under the name of Hele Nice, dies in Nice, France, at age 83 (1984). 2 Bernd Rosemeyer, driving an Auto Union, wins the British Grand Prix at Donington, the last race of the 750kg racing formula (1937)....
Jerry Grant was one of the many American racing drivers who could, and did, drive virtually anything he could get...
Leading the exceptional roster of “Rennsport” Porsches recently consigned to RM’s August 17–18, Monterey sale is an extraordinary, well-documented 1971...
When Jack Brabham was demobbed from the Royal Australian Air Force in 1947, even he did not realize he was about to establish an Australian motor racing dynasty, but that is exactly what he did. Jack would win no fewer than three Formula One World Championships, the last in 1966...
